Within the superclass of Pezizomycotina, the 6 classes (including Pezizomycetes and Orbiliomycetes) were monophyletic apart from Xylonomycetes.
Xylonomycetes, Eurotiomycetes and Dothideomycetes were deemed to have had a single origin.[6]
It contains the wood endophytes in Xylona and the endosymbionts of beetles in Symbiotaphrina.[8] It has been suggested that these seeming unrelated genera might be linked via a yeast-like stage. As an asexual yeast living within the insect guts, with an asexual mycelial form and then a sexual form associated with the dead wood. Although, the frequency of transfer between free-living and symbiotic conditions is unknown and could be very low. As the yeasts are transferred vertically via the ovipositor of the female inset to the egg surface.[9]
^ abcGazis, R.; Miadlikowska, J.; Lutzoni, F.; Arnold, A.E.; Chaverri, P. (2012). "Culture-based study of endophytes associated with rubber trees in Peru reveals a new class of pezizomycotina: Xylonomycetes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 65 (1): 294–304. Bibcode:2012MolPE..65..294G. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.06.019. PMID22772026.
^ abBaral, H.O.; Weber, E.; Marson, G.; Quijada, L. (2018). "A new connection between wood saprobism and beetle endosymbiosis: the rarely reported saprobic discomycete Tromeropsis is congeneric with the symbiotic yeast Symbiotaphrina (Symbiotaphrinales, Xylonomycetes) and two asexual morphs misplaced in Hyphozyma". Mycological Progress. 17 (1): 215–254. Bibcode:2018MycPr..17..215B. doi:10.1007/s11557-017-1340-y.
^Joseph Heitman, Barbara J. Howlett, Pedro W. Crous, Eva H. Stukenbrock, Timothy Yong James and Neil A. R. Gow The Fungal Kingdom (2020), p. 19, at Google Books